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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

wILLAnD n. CUTTING, oFS'r. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

. ELECTRIC CALL.

SPECIFICATION forming 'part of Letters Patent No. 376,863, dares January 24,1888. Y Applioationgled June 14, 1887. Serial No. 241.271. (No model.) l

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD H. CUTTING,

of the cityof St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Electric Calls, of which the following is a full, clear, andexaet description, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specificatiomand in which- Figure I is an elevation of myimproved call system, showing part of the face-board broken away. Fig. II is a rear view. Fig. III is an enlarged detail section taken on line III III, Fig. IV. Fig. IV is a similar view taken on line IV IV, Fig. III. Fig. V is a similar View taken on line V V, Fig. VI. Fig. VI is a similar view taken on line VI VI, Fig. V. Fig. VII is an enlarged section taken on line VII VII, Fig. II; and Fig. VIII is a similar view taken on line VIII VIII, Fig. II. Figs. IX and X are detail views. f

My invention relates to an improved electric call device, intended more particularly for use in livery-stables and like places, but which may be used for other purposes; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the from six oclock in the vevening ,to five oclock in the morning', and the top row of the lower series preferably running from sixoclock in the morning to five oclock in theevening. The lower rows of each series are divided up into quarter, half, and threequarter hours.

Secured to the back of the board 1, behind ranged in a number of vertical series in a ring,

10, of insulation secured to the board. (See Figs. II, VII, and VIII.) rIhe ring is secured tothe board, as shown at 1l. lAs already n Stated, the arms 6 and springs .7 are located v behind the buttons, -andwhen either button is forced from the position shown in Fig. vIV to that shown in Fig. VI the springis forced down onthe arm to close the electric circuit between the wires 8 and the buttons. 'Ihe stems of the buttons kare provided with projections 12,which passthrough slots or enlargements 13 of the holes 2, and when they are through the buttons may be turned to move the projections away from the'slots, and the buttons will lthen be held in their inner 'position, as shown in FigVI, until they are turned back to' bring the projections in line with the slots. When any one button is thus forced in,

the'electric circuit is closd between the wires 8 and the stems of the buttons, and it passes through the latter to thel metallic strips-5 onl the back of the board 1, against which the projections 12 bear, and thus the current is plate, 47, and a. wire,48, all of the plates 5 connecting with the plate 47,. f

17 represents a hand or arm, which is made y to revolve once in twenty-four hours by means of suitable clock mechanism. It carries on itsV outer end, 18, brushes 19, that bear'again'st the inner ends ofthe pins 9 as the hand turns; and veach pin being provided with a wire, 8,'com-y m'unicating with the Abuttons by means of the arms and springs 7, it will be seen that when any button is pressed in a current of. electricity will be caused to pass through the hand 17, to which is connected a wire, 20, madefast to the hammer 21 of an electric bell, 22.` The; haml mer yis provided withy an armature, 24, that acts in conjunction with'a magnet, 23and to the magnet` is connected a wire, 25, which is connected at its other end to the battery 16.

This completes `thercircuit, so that each time a button is shoved in an alamvwill be given when the hand comes in contact with 'the pin of that button. f

Thus, if in a livery-stable, for instance, a

conveyance should be ordered in the evening' for 8.15 in the morning, the button 30,'Fig. I

would be forced in at the time .the order is given. The alarm would not ring until the contact-brush of the hand 17 came against the pin 9 of this button, when the alarm would be sounded, which would be at 8.15, as stated.l S0 it would be with any other hour desired, all that is required to be done being to shove in the proper button.

In Figs. IX and X, I have shown a tablet, 50, adapted to be hooked over any one of the buttons, and upon this may be inscribed a notice to the party in attendance, as shown in Fig. IX. Such tablets may also be used where more than one call is given for the same hour, thus indicating to the man in attendance that two orders are to be filled, and directing his attention to his order-book if the instructions are not on the tablet, as stated.

As shown in Fig. X of the drawings, any number of tablets may be arranged over a button by making the fingers on the stems of said,

tabletsV increasing in size, so that they may iit one over another.

I claim as my inventionf l 1. The combination of the hand provided with a contact-brush, alarm having electrical connections with the hand and with a suitable supply, a number of series of pins against which the .contact-brush bears, and push-buttons interposed in a connection between the pins and the supply, as set forth.

2. The combination ofthe hand, alarm, electrical connection between said hand and alarm and between the alarm and battery, a ring or cylinder in which are arranged longitudinal series of pins, push-buttons interposed in the connection between the pins and the battery, and a contact -brush on the hand adapted to bear on each ofthe pins in the series by means of a series of'projections on the brush, substantially as described. v

3. In a call system, substantially as herein shown and described, the combination of the buttons and removable tablets having bent ngers on their stems for tting over the buttons, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

VILLARD H. CUTTING. In presence of- GEO. H. KNIGHT, EDW. S. KNIGHT. 

